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Did the Bologna Process challenge the German apprenticeship system? : evidence from a natural experiment

Thomsen, Stephan L.; Trunzer, Johannes - 2020

-year bachelor's (BA) system to harmonize study lengths in Europe and improve competitiveness. This reform unintentionally challenged …

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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches

Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019

This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...

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Effects of peers and rank on cognition, preferences, and personality

Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha; Sharma, Smriti; … - 2020

We exploit the variation in admission cutoffs across colleges at a leading Indian university to estimate the causal effects of enrolling in a selective college on cognitive attainment, economic preferences, and Big Five personality traits. Using a regression discontinuity design, we find that...

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Product market competition and employer provided training in Germany

Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe; Campaner, Annika - 2017

Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training except when the competition is so severe as to threaten...

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Entrepreneurship education and teacher training in Rwanda

Blimpo, Moussa P.; Pugatch, Todd - 2020

We assess, via an experiment across 207 secondary schools, how a comprehensive teacher training program affects the delivery of a major entrepreneurship curriculum reform in Rwanda. The reform introduced interactive pedagogy and a focus on business skills in the country’s required upper...

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Unintended consequences of youth entrepreneurship programs : experimental evidence from Rwanda

Blimpo, Moussa P.; Pugatch, Todd - 2023

The persistently high employment share of the informal sector makes entrepreneurship a necessity for youth in many developing countries. We exploit exogenous variation in the implementation of Rwanda's entrepreneurship education reform in secondary schools to evaluate its effect on student...

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Investing in human capital to boost growth!

Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - 2017

The Italian economy performs well below the EU average. The reason is a dramatic and persistent low rate of investment, always invoked but never supported by national and supra-national institutions. However, investment to increase the quantity and quality of human capital is key to boost...

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Convergence in total greenhouse gas emissions worldwide

Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2023

This paper examines convergence patterns in total greenhouse gas emissions across 114 countries from 1990 to 2019 … broaden the study. We use the club convergence test to contrast the null hypothesis of convergence for a pool of data and … identify subgroups of convergence. The results reveal different clubs according to the air pollutant considered, indicating the …

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Organized labour and R&D : evidence from Italy

Cetrulo, Armanda; Cirillo, Valeria; Landini, Fabio - 2022

This paper investigates the impact of firm-level collective bargaining on firms' investment in intangible assets and, specifically R&D. While standard hold-up theories predict a negative effect of organized labour on intangible investments, the inclusion of pay-for-performance schemes in...

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Arsenic exposure and school participation in Cambodia

Saing, Chan Hang; Cannonier, Colin - 2017

We exploit the exogenous variations of arsenic contamination across regions in Cambodia and apply two-period difference-in-differences (DID) to examine the impact of arsenic-contaminated groundwater on school participation among children aged 5-17. We find that conditional on the DID assumption,...

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